Tag: Christian worldview
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Where are we Going?
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Feb. 1, 2022) — The fourth fundamental question that every worldview must answer is the question of destiny. Life, any human life, requires a beginning – a past. It needs meaning and morality – a present. It also needs a destination – a future. This future, whether light or dark, robust or…
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The Morality Question III
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Jan. 7, 2022) — [Editor’s Note: See Parts I and II of this series here and here.] Into the intractable conflict between what is and what ought to be, the right will of the Creator and the wrong will and performance of mankind, comes the incarnation of the Creator in Jesus of…
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The Morality Question II
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Jan. 4, 2022) — We have been exploring the Christian answer to the third of the great questions that define a robust worldview: the morality question. How should we live? If we answer the origin question with a Creator and the meaning question with a purposeful Designer, we should find ourselves in…
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The Morality Question I
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Dec. 28, 2021) — We come to the third of the four mega-questions that every worldview must answer: origin, meaning, and now morality. How should we live? With sentience comes choices. Someone has said, “Mankind is the only animal that can blush – or needs to.” Other creatures operate by instinct, according…
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The Big Questions: Origins
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Nov. 15, 2021) — A worldview that takes into account the eternal and unseen realm is more than reasonable. Likewise, the existence of an intelligent Creator is not only reasonable but just about the only conceivable reason for the cosmos. Yet, based on our own reason and senses, our certain knowledge of…
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Human Dignity and Worth
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Jul. 8, 2021) — Split? Worldview. What do you see when you look at other people? What are they? The ordinary folks, the clerk, the celebrity, the derelict, the veiled woman, the children, the refugee, the stripper, the handicapped, the unborn, the elderly, the weird all have one thing in common. The…
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Conscience and Sexuality
by ProfDave, ©2021 (May 3, 2021) — [Editor’s Note: See Part I here.] As we have seen, conscience links our sexuality to God, to our species, and to our society. In a sense, we are free to do as we like, but we are not free to choose the consequences. Conscience applies to sexuality on…